With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that "e;spins an end-of-the-Cold-War tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light"e; (New York Times). It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayalsdoubles and triples and possibly quadruplescontinues to multiply.
| ISBN: | 9780802146212 |
| Publication date: | 8th May 2018 |
| Author: | Stoppard, Tom |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook |
With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that "e;spins an end-of-the-Cold-War tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light"e; (New York Times). It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayalsdoubles and triples and possibly quadruplescontinues to multiply.
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Hapgood was written by Stoppard, Tom and published by Grove Atlantic
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